I've been running a group of 4 PCs through the Shackled City for a few months now, and though it's been challenging for them in places it hasn't been too bad. We're right at the end of Flood Season (2nd adventure in the series as published in the magazine, but 3rd in the hard cover) and everyone...
The Wormfood article profiles 3 NPCs that could be used as cohorts for a 6th level PC that takes the Leadership feat. They are, apparently, all PCs that play in Erik Mona's playtest game for the AOW campaign.
I wish my first post on these forums on a more positive topic but ... still nothing here either. No Dungeon #106, or Dragon #315 (though that one I wouldn't consider late yet).
I did however see a big stack of Dungeon #106's on the supermarket magazine rack of all places. Seems the newstands...